CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library

Seth Michael Larson pointed out that the Python gzip module can be used as a CLI tool like this:

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It's worth noting that the http.server module is based on socketserver.BaseServer.serve_forever, which is a atrocious.

It uses a busy loop with a delay, so it both burns CPU and is unresponsive.

(The fact that Python has had broken signal handling since 3.5 also hurts - EINTR should never be ignored from blocking calls)